Surreal reality

Just because science can, should it? Not a new question, of course, but really. Cloned meat? “I’d like my meat with 10x the cruelty and devaluation of another’s life, please!” And the news focuses on the health concerns.

I’ll be writing a letter once I’ve had a chance to go through at least some of the 678 page document the federal government will see fit to ignore in favor of agribusiness. It just seems like people are missing the point.

Artist: ConflictSong: Meat Means Murder

The factory’s still churning out, all processed packed and neat
An obscure butchered substance and the label reads “meat”
Hidden behind false names such as pork, ham, veal and beef
An eye’s an eye; a life’s a life, the now forgotten belief
Yet everyday production lines are feeding out this farce
Just to end up on your table, then shit out of your ass

Yet, still you’re queuing, and still you’re viewing
Sawing out limbs just right for stewing
Carcasses piled up in a heap
Sort juicy chunks from freezers deep
Well can’t you see that juice is blood
From newborn throats, red rivers flood
Blood from the young hearts, blood from the veins
Your blood, their blood, serves the same

Now you’re at the table, sitting, grinning
Sitting there eating, you never realize the filling
It’s served upon a sterile plate, you don’t think of the killing
The furthest your brain takes you “Is it for frying or for grilling?”
You moan about the seal cull, about the whale slaughter
But does it really matter whether it lives on land or water
You’ve never had a fur coat; you think it’s cruel to the mink
Well, how about the cow, pig, sheep; don’t they make you think
Since the day that you were born, you’ve never been told the missing link